“Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn’t even say what wisdom is.”
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Fausto Cercignani65
Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941Related quotes
“Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.”
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Martial book Epigrammata
I, 15.
Variant translations:
'I'll live to-morrow', 'tis not wise to say:
'Twill be too late to-morrow—live to-day.
Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say;
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
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